12/15/2024–|Last updated: 12/15/202410:17 PM (Mecca time)
The Financial Times newspaper reported, based on an analysis of bank records, that the regime of the ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad He moved about $250 million in cash to Moscow between 2018 and 2019, while his family secretly bought assets in Russia.
The Financial Times said that the funds transferred to Moscow were delivered to the financial institution’s Russian bank, and that Assad’s senior aides continued to transfer assets to Russia despite Western sanctions.
The newspaper revealed that the Assad regime, which was suffering from a severe shortage of foreign currency, transported banknotes weighing about two tons in denominations of 100 dollars and 500 euros to Vnukovo Airport in Moscow, to be deposited in Russian banks subject to sanctions between 2018 and 2019.
Top destinations
The unusual transfers from Damascus confirm the way in which Russia, Assad’s main ally, has become one of the most important destinations for Syrian currency after Western sanctions pushed it out of the global financial system, according to the newspaper.
andIn 2019, the Financial Times reported that since 2013 the Assad family had purchased at least 20 luxury apartments in Moscow using a complex series of company and loan arrangements.
A few days ago, the British newspaper The Times suggested that Assad’s family would move to the Moscow City area after Russia granted him asylum for humanitarian reasons.
On November 27, the Syrian armed opposition factions launched their operation.Deter aggressionStarting from Idlib and Aleppo, then Hama and Homs, all the way to Damascus, which it entered – at dawn last Sunday – announcing the fall of the Assad regime.
ظهرت في الأصل على www.aljazeera.net